Day 1 & 2

Hey everyone,

I realize i was against this whole blog thing, & here i am doing it. There's a lot of free time up here & therefore i found nothing better to do than blog...& facebook. LAME.
Anyway, i thought i'd take a minute to update everyone.
Remember the jokes during the last half of summer about my potential roommate? Well, to my surprise half of the jokes are true & half are not. As i suspected, the english is a tiny issue. She's already told me that i talk really fast =]. However, she said she hopes to be able to talk like me soon....i told her it's more of a curse than a blessing. ANYWHO...here's a recap of day 1 of welcome week 2009!!

DAY ONE

I started off the day with moving in. Some of you will appreciate the fact that i literally had to carry nothing that morning. Mom & Dad did all the packing of the car on our way here & the move-in crew (& to my disappointment it was the girls soccer team, not the football team) moved all the stuff up to my room while i was checking in, which took about 15 minutes max!
Once upstairs, we starting unpacking...& thanks to some soccer girl who turned on the heat, it was unbearable until we figured out to turn the AC on! After we were finished, we had to make a quick run to Walgreen's for shower curtain hooks & an umbrella. Apparently shower curtain hooks were the hot item that day because i bought the last pack they had.

MEETINGS
MEETINGS
MEETINGS
MEETINGS

That pretty much sums if the hours in between, but later that night came the playfair.
Not as fun as you might think....
The music was really loud & we would walk through the doors as everyone who had entered the doors before us would line up on the sides so we could walk through the middle. Then once everyone was in, we had to run. Yes, me...RUN. We were instructed to hold the hand of the people next to us and we were all strung along with our arms almost being pulled out of socket. But it may sound like all fun & games except i forgot one little detail. THE BUILDING HAD NO AC!!!!!! Therefore the "fun" was no longer "fun", just hot & sweaty. We had to get in big circles of about 15 or so people & we were then instructed to put our elbows on our hips so that we could touch the person in front of us. We would get closer to the middle to make this possible. Then she said to attempt to all move as a group at lean back so that we could SIT (yes, sit) on the person behind us. I have no idea what the guys name was that was behind me, but i had to sit on him as if he were a chair. Whoever created these games was...well, i think you can put a word in that blank.
An hour & a half later we were all dripping in sweat & making great first impressions (eye roll & sigh). Then there was a dance at 9....luckily my roommate (Alice--her American name) and i decided not to go, as many of our floor mates did, & just come back up here, take a shower, & sleep.

DAY 2

The alarm went of at 6:30 this morning. painful!
The floor girls, our RA (Annie), an OL (orientation leader--Whitney), Alice, & I all decided to make our group meeting this morning a meeting over breakfast. I've had almost no appetite since i've been here, shocking right? I thought so too. What i have eaten though has been pretty good, which surprises me. The free lunch on move-in day was terrible...which now i'm thinking was on purpose because of the word FREE. Anyway, breakfast meeting. Haha almost no one was in there, which was 8:30, but we had our little meeting.
Then came 2 more meetings.....B-O-R-I-N-G!
I came back to the room to snack for lunch, only 2 swipes a day (aka 2 meals in the cafe). Alice went to best buy for 7 hours....i can't begin to imagine that. So consequently, meetings aside, i've had quite a lot of alone time. I'm sitting here writing this, enjoying the coffee that i made myself (thank you, thank you!) which was just about the most fun thing i've done all day. I'm starting to look forward to classes so i'm not stuck in these 4 cinder block walls for hours.
I can't wait for tomorrow though! Minimal meetings & Stephanie moves in (cousin's girlfriend)! Finally, another familiar face! There are still meetings tomorrow though, mostly by department; a language i can understand! The best day will be sunday though, NO MEETINGS AT ALL!! Just a movie in smith mall (outdoor area) STAR TREK! Sounds better than meetings to me =]

Everyday i'd like to write something i've found out, learned, or something in that general area.
Today i learned that guys open doors for girls here. Who knew!
They don't let the door slam in your face.
They actually WAIT for you to be out of the room before they shut the door!
It's actually kind of awesome!

One ANNOYING fact is the key.
You have to use the key to get into the building
You have to use the key to get upstairs
You have to use the key to get in your room

I hate keys.
I love when i walk in after people because then they have to use their key =]


So that's about all that's happened in the first 2 days.
I'll try to update all of you everyday, but it may not be quite this long.

I love you all =]